Two years after Vine Co-founder Dom Hofmann announced he was building a sequel to the short-form video-sharing app 'Vine', the app named 'Byte' has been released. Like Vine, Byte also lets users create and share six-second looping videos. Hofmann co-founded Vine in 2012, which was then acquired by Twitter. However, Twitter shut the app down in 2017 to cut costs.